Photo: Dan Kvitka. Courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art/Flickr In her artwork America (Burnt/Unburnt), French artist Claire Fontaine created a map of the United States out of 50,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/17/USA-Map-Made-Out-of-50000-Matchsticks/
Obviously, I'm rapidly becoming a fan of Thoma... ...vitte. Here is his tribute to the inventor of the matchstick , John Walker. Over a series of months, Pavitte cr... ...n matches. I had no idea, but Walker invented the matchstick by accident--a fact that fascinated Pavitte. Whi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/29/john-walker-tribute/
Some people make furnitures out of scraps of wood,... ...de theirs from really tiny scraps of wood, namely matchsticks :... since matchsticks were one of the few abundant resources in the USS... ...nique makeover. While other people threw away the matchsticks after lighting th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/06/matchstick-furniture/
Phillip Warren's hobby for the past 62 years h... ...years has been building models of warships out of matchsticks . So far, he's used 650,000 matches to build 400... ...ship in his collection is made using around 1,500 matchsticks and takes about a month to complete, but for his... ..., but for his larger c...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/10/matchstick-models-of-every-ship-in-the-royal-navy-since-1945/
Ukrainian artist Yurko Gutsulyak has created what is probably the perfect calendar for pyromaniacs: the "days" made of individual matches that you can tear off and set alight.Link - via Typography Served...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/calendar-for-pyromaniacs/
